Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-26

John MaStln, who lives 10 NlcnolaS,
OWNS a prairie dog, which during the dry
weather, dug in the ground until he came
10 water. The gentleman lives on a
mountain and it is supposed the dog went
down q hundred feet or more.
Isaac r. Burns, of Kanawha district,
Braxton county, while working in a new
we'll last Thursday, fell about eighteen
feet, killing him instantly. He had start
ed out of the we'll and when within a few
feet of the top lost his hold and fell. His
neck was broken.
While at work in a granary Wednesday,
Austin Coney, a son of George Coney, who
resides on the Kanawha river, near st.
Alberns, was seriously injured by a crib
falling on him. One Of his shoulders was
dislocated, his thigh broken, and he was
mashed and bruised all over the whole
body.
Henry Anderson, of Newburg, was ar
rested for stealing q horse, by Special
Constable B. F. Miller, OF Tucker county,
last week, and lodged i'll Jail at st. George.
The offense was committed in Pocahontas
county, and as the Sheriff of Tucker was
en- route with his prisoner to Pocahontas
Anderson succeeded in making his escape.
May Clark, q young unmarried woman
HvTUS On sixth Street, gHye uutH 10 u cnIIu
Wednesday night. She told a woma liv-
lug near that it was alive when born, and
that her mother took it out and buried it.
The case has every indication of infanti-
eide, and while she does not say the child
was killed or buried alive, she will not
say it was not.-CLarksJurg Telegram.
At Anstead, a small village in Fayette
county. this State, is the grave of the
mother of Stonewall Jackson. A stone
marks her grave with the following in
scription: Julia Beckwith Neale was
born Feb. %, 1898, in Loudon County,
Virginia; married first, Jonathan Jackson;
second, Beake B. Woodson. Died Septem-
Der, 1881. To the mother of Stonewall
Jackson, by apriyate Of his brigade"
The Ensign Manufacturing Company at
Huntington have commenced work OF q
new car erecting shop, which will be COM
pleted by the first Of November, and will
be constructed on the best and most adj
%vantageous plan to get out rapid work,
The building will be a brick structure, COX
200 feet, and will have five tracks running
through it, and will necessitate the en-
ployment of 500 additional men when in
operation.
John Woods, a Saginaw City (Mich.)
barber, with others of his family, was sold
as a slave thirty-six years ago, in Virginia.
Each was bought bya seperate person, and
they were taken to bondage in different di-
rections. Since that time John has heard
nothing of his mother until recently, when
he learned, in an indirect manner, that
she was still living at Hinton, this State.
He intends coming this way to hunt the
old lady up.
At Ronceverte, Greenbrier county, a
colored woman by the name of Louise Ed
ridge, formerly Louise james, of ewisburg,
was shot through the heart OIL the night
of the Goth instant, at midnight, while on
her way home from her husbands restau-
rant in that place, and instantly killed.
One John CapertoD, colored, was arrested
and brought before the town authorities,
but in the absence of proof against him
was discharged.
Considerable excitement was created at
Oakland, Md, q few days since, by the
attempt of VIM. Grim, Of that place, to
shoot his wife. Mrs. Grim suspected her
husband of infdelity, and followed him TO
q place where she supposed the object of
his affection dwelt. Grim drew q pistol
from his pocket and fired upon her, put
ting q bullet through her hat, grazing her
head. Grim is in Jail. He is indicted for
violating the local option law, and was ont
on bail, but his sureties surrendered him
after the shooting ARRAY.
That fatal disease, bloody 1ux, has as
sumed a serious aspect In the neighborhood
of Big Laurel, Greenbrier county, and sew
eral persons have fallen victims to its fatal
ravages. There have been six deaths
from iux in q very short time, via: Little
Nellie Cox, daughter Of C. L. Cox, six
years old; Mrs. Louvicy Collins, wife Of
Ira Collins, about 4s years of age; jackson
and Mary Collins, children of Ira Collins,
aged respectively IL and 3 years; and two
of W. Coleman's children. There are sew
eral other cases Of flux In the vicinity,
but they are improving with a probability
of recovery.
The Philippi Republican says that at a
special meeting of the board of directors,
John W. BRADSHAW, president, made q
report of the cost of the Belington extern
sion of the G. & G. r. R., which showed
that the eighteen miles Of road cost in
round figures $4,000, or q fraction less
than S., 900 per mile. This includes the
costs OF rights Of way, engineering
expenses, grading, trestling, so as to
put the road in good running order.
1t will be remembered that there was
some heavy rock work upon the line at
and above the mouth of the Buckhannon.
We doubt if the history of railroad build
ing gives an instance Of as cheap railroad
construction as this.
A statistical report recently made at the
q. s. Engineer Office in Charleston Of the
amount OF coal shipped from mines on the
Great Kanawha during the past year is q
very gratifying one, showing a decided in
crease in the business both by river and
by railroad. The statement was compiled
TO accompany the annual report of Mr.. A.
NJ. Scott, Resident Engineer Of the Great
Kanawha Improvement, TO Col. VIM. p.
Craighill, the officer in charge. 1t was
derived like the Great Kanawha coal state
ments for several years past, published in